Probashi- Cover Story he started to learn swimming at the Sea Rock Hotel swimming pool hoping to learn adequatee swimming skills for the movie. But crossing river Ganges during monsoon is another balll game which no training in a swimming pool can prepare you for. So when the shot was being canned, Naseer was struggling amongst swift currents and almost drowned twice but for the life guards who swam along Naseer and saved him in nick of time. In comparison Shabana is a terrific Sehenai maestro Bismillah Khan( right) had a deep impact on Goutam Ghose. swimmer and gave her shot Inspiration to make a film on hollowness of religious divide was fuelled by the flawlessly. This climax scene of Paar deep humanism of Bismillah Khan., the outcome was the award winning film was the first shot I filmed
Probashi- Cover Story he started to learn swimming at the Sea Rock Hotel swimming pool hoping to learn adequatee swimming skills for the movie. But crossing river Ganges during monsoon is another balll game which no training in a swimming pool can prepare you for. So when the shot was being canned, Naseer was struggling amongst swift currents and almost drowned twice but for the life guards who swam along Naseer and saved him in nick of time. In comparison Shabana is a terrific Sehenai maestro Bismillah Khan( right) had a deep impact on Goutam Ghose. swimmer and gave her shot Inspiration to make a film on hollowness of religious divide was fuelled by the flawlessly. This climax scene of Paar deep humanism of Bismillah Khan., the outcome was the award winning film was the first shot I filmed
. I had told Moner Manush my producer that if we can pull off
Nibaron, the hungry list poet, in Lalon Fakir and talks of religious the river crossing shot then the the hit film Baishey Shraabon. tolerance. whole film can be made else we will How did it feel to be back in front have to shelve Paar. Thankfully of the cameraa?
After the Babri Masjid episode I was
Naseer pulled it off. Naseer got the extremely pained, the face of best actor award at Venice Film Srijit and Prosenjit approached me Bismillah
Khan an epitome of
Festival and also the National award and I said yes. As a Director I am culture, refinement achievement in the same category. required to help my actors to get and tolerance would come in front their emotions and body language of my eyes. I had resolved to make a You were the cinematographer for right. So in that sense I had never movie decrying communal
Aparna Sen’ s Mr & Mrs
Iyer. Your left acting. It was not very difficult intolerance projected through work was critically acclaimed. How to act in front of the camera. You symbols of spiritualism and did it feel not being the captain of will also see me as an actor in the secularism. I had thought of Kabir, the ship for once? upcoming film Ekla Aakash. Dadu Dayal, Lalon and Nanak as However I am a director and will( Laughs) Aparna is a childhood possibilities as the main protagonist never take up acting full time. friend. For first 3‐4 days of shooting for my film. In 2008 Sunil
I was behind the camera and by Your film Moner Manush is an Gangopadhyay published a brilliant habit was also barking instructions extraordinary movie based on novel Moner Manush based on to the actors as if I was the director till Aparna came up to me and with a smile reminded me that she was the directorr. The only other time I was the cinematographer for another director was for Harisadhan Dasgupta for a documentary shot in Mizoram when the state was under unrest and no cinematographer was willing to shoot in Mizoram. I stepped in out of reverence for Harisadandaa, one of my mentors.
After Buddhadeb
Dasgupta’ s Grihajuddhaa we had to wait for 20 years to see you as an actor on screen when you played the role of
Interview with
Goutam Ghose
Gautam Ghose( Left) directing Prosonjit( Centre) and Paoli Dam( right) on the sets of Moner Manush